Max Jax thoughts.

[moparhunter]

Ok Guys here is my thoughts, I have been fighting with myself to buy a Hoist I have Nine foot ceiling Flat, So my choices are: Max Jax,Scissor lift , of going to a fluch mount Scissor lift all have there own draw backs, Honestly If the max Jax Lifted a few more inches it would be a easy choice, also I will be putting alot of differant cars/trucks up on the lift (which one?)and Feel that being safe is the most important thing,Now I have a 4 year old garage that I built but farmed out the concret not raelly sure of the depth or the PSi raing but not really a problem as my brother is in the business of concret and can do a sample and fix up anything that needs to be done. However I was thinking that for some extra piece of mind and **** what if a person was to get a 1/2 piese of sheet steel and mount the Max jax to that (maybe even weld it to it) I know some right away is going to say , but then its not portable , I know but for some of use thats not the issue I was just thinking that if it was bolted/welded to a 12ft by 6 ft sheet steel you could bolt the **** out of it and its not going anywhere Period. Whats your thoughts on this?

 

[ket-tek]

12ft x 6ft x 1/2" slab of steel. Holy ****~

A few people here have had bad concrete when putting these down. Best solution is to saw cut out a good size square out under where each column goes, excavate the dirt below and repour new footers just for the columns.

'Fairly' easy for a DIY'er to handle and surely nothing for your brother since he is a concrete guy.

I've done a maxjax install and luckily the concrete worked out ok, I just had to deal with the conflicting anchor setting techniques, which has since been hashed over many times here in other threads.

 

[regguy1]

You can increase the height of the vehicle with the 3" adapters that come with it. I've also cut several wood blocks and they can also be used to add height.

Photos of blocks to add height on bottom of page 1 and page 2 here:

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=71225